Vermont’s queen city has been “deep blue” in its politics since 1981, the year Bernie Sanders was elected mayor by 10 votes. It’s only fairly recently that the City of Burlington has started to emulate so many other “blue” shithole cities like Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, Seattle, Chicago, and New York.
As of this writing, there have been 22 shooting incidents in Burlington.
Visitors also take notice of Burlington’s uptick in gun violence. So far there have been 22 gun incidents in the city this year, including an officer-involved shooting.
Just last weekend two people were shot near a bar closing which prompted a heavy Vermont State Police presence at the request of the city in Burlington’s downtown.
A stark contrast to what some people remember.
“It wasn’t as bad as it is now. I have been hearing so many more reports. Hearing so many more ambulances, fire trucks, that kind of stuff, and it’s disheartening, to say the least,” explains UVM student Jaya Bennett.
This is what you progressives and democrats in Burlington voted for. BLM, de-fund the police, open(southern) borders, a sanctuary city, what the hell were you expecting?
Things were bad enough that Mayor Weinberger(D) had to call in the State Police.
Unfortunately, more than a few people seem more scared of law and order
Burlington City Councilor Joe Magee, P-Ward 3, doesn’t think adding officers with guns is the solution to the problems the city is seeing. “The fact that we had 10 state troopers down on Church Street Saturday night is frightening for a lot of people in the community,” Magee said.
I think the cops should declare “Ward 3” a no-go zone and let everyone there fend for themselves.
The reason people are fleeing shithole democrat-run cities and headed for New England, Vermont in particular is that their George Soros-funded district attorneys that they voted in, decided to give criminals carte blanche to intimidate, assault, rob, and murder.
Burlington Vt., the largest metro area in the nation’s largest gated community has just been behind the curve and has taken a year or two to catch up.
What’s shocking is that these people have no clue that this is what always results when you vote for your leftist ideology/religion.
Now Texas should ship about 500 or so migrants on buses and have them dropped off on Church street. That would be very interesting to watch.